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Belgrade concession bidders outline plans

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Several of the four consortiums and one company that have qualified to bid in the second and final phase for the 25-year concession to operate Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport have briefly outlined some of their plans. According to the Serbian government, the non-bindings offers received during the first phase of the bidding process have exceeded expectations and are eight times higher in value than anticipated. Serbia, which has an 83.1% stake in the airport, expects the upfront payment for the deal to be worth around 400 million euros. China's HNA Airport Group, which is bidding jointly with subsidiary Hainan Air Travel Service, as well as China National Aero Technology, is still believed to be the front runner.

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As part of their plans, the Chinese intend to invest on several fronts, including infrastructure development, which would be dedicated to China National Aero Technology, while Hainan Air Travel Service would be tasked with pulling in a significant number of Chinese tourists to Serbia and devising a wider investment strategy for tourism development across the country. The HNA Group also plans to establish and run a pilot training centre. On the other hand, Incheon International Airport Corporation with its Turkish partner plans to expand the airport's capacity as quickly as possible. "We are formulating a strategy to develop Nikola Tesla Airport into the main international hub in the Balkans. We want to expand capacity as quickly as possible. The average annual passenger growth rate at Belgrade Airport is 7%. Based on that, we want to formulate a high-quality plan that will expand the airport in line with growth, while at the same time offering comfortable and seamless travel for all passengers", representatives from South Korea said. They would also evaluate the possibility for the introduction of nonstop flights between the two countries. The South Korean and Turkish duo also bid in Zagreb Airport's concession process several years ago.

Shares in India's GMR Infrastructure touched a 52-week high yesterday after it was announced that its bid for Belgrade Airport had advanced. The Indian infrastructure conglomerate, with interests in airport, energy, transportation and urban infrastructure, has teamed up with GEK Terma from Greece following their successful bid to develop, operate and manage the new international airport in Heraklion. After their meeting with officials from the Serbian government earlier this May, it emerged that GMR itself would be responsible for building new and updating existing infrastructure at the airport, while GEK Terma would formulate a profit-making strategy and be involved with the managerial side of the business. Meanwhile, the Franco-Swiss bid, comprised of Meridiam, Eiffage and Zurich Airport aims to "expand and improve the airport’s infrastructure to achieve its maximum growth potential by utilising the best management practices", EX-YU Aviation News was told in a statement. The consortium's mission will be to offer "best quality services to passengers, airlines and other stakeholders".

The five entities now have 75 days to formulate their binding bids. Besides a financial offer, they will have to submit a market tactic development strategy, a detailed airfield development plan, terminal development concept, a capital expenditure plan, as well as a business and operational plan, to name a few. The Public Body overseeing the concession process will then score each category out of ten and will have thirty days to announce the winner. It reserves the right to extend deadlines for the submission of binding bids at any time. The Serbian government has said it expects for the entire procedure to be completed, and for the deal to come to a financial close, by year's end.

Diapers thing is something that people who got fired from Yura spread in media, that was never proven by inspections and I don't recall that anyone sued the company for that or even reported it anywhere but in media.

Hahaha that was a great laugh! Even Those desperate to work and money wouldn't allow thenselves to be treated like that, and I'm sure that the cost of diapers far outweighs the cost of letting someone go to the bathroom... because diapers have to he changed, that takes time to clean up and replace - more cost effective method is to use the bathroom! Fake news at it's best I think.

It is fake news. Serbian media passed off this video as showing that workers in the factory were forced to "kneel" to Korean management. I mean if you look at the video you see it's some sort of a joke since the workers are laughing.

Factory workers in Serbia and before in Yugoslavia were used to doing absolutely nothing. Especially during the 90s when there was no production, they would laze around, go home early or not even show up to work and smoke all day. Now they actually have to WORK. And if they don't follow the rules they get fired. Nothing illegal about that.

This is just stupid rant of plain idiot from PPP or similar site. My cousin left managing position in Italian company behaving similar to JURA. No money can paid you for that doing to the your own people.

Video is greeting message sent back to the management in Korea. The whole kneeling thing is blown out of proportions. In Korea kneeling is sign of respect and is basically used instead of saying hello on daily basis...

That was because Jat was near bankrupt and the market was underserved because a nonfunctional national airline. As soon as Air Serbia upped its game, offered competitive fares, good connections and service, there was no rooms for others.

Not so sure. Terminal is smaller than planned (not saying it's bad it looks nice) and they seemed to have cut costs. What I do applaud them on is attracting new airlines but that may also have to do with bumper tourists numbers in the country + recent EU entry which makes your case for attracting new airline much easier.

i still don't see BEG needing a new runway, terminal and pax growth 6% each year, but i might be shortsighted.proposed pace of BEG development would then be something yet unheard of in europe (please correct me if i am wrong)

anyhow, if the concessionaire invests it is good for serbia and it might create some decent jobs - so yaaaay! (or "bravo serbia!", how the good news are usually treated on this blog)

Sounds like Chinese have the best offer, from what I have read here. If they really start re-directing tourists to Belgrade, that would be huge. I also imagine they would use Belgrade as a transfer hub for tourists visiting Croatia coast and other Balkan states. That would be huge TBH.

I would choose a company that would increase the number of airlines and frequencies at Belgrade Airport. For all airlines to be treated fairly and pay fees based on the amount of traffic they generate. Also encourage new LCCs. They should use their connections to stimulate new destinations like the French did in Zagreb.

+1 I landed from the U.S. once and they sniffed me out even with my perfect Serbian, the guy was trying to pay me and not even charge me money for the taxi to marry his daughter who is much younger than me hahaha.

Also once I was on a legitimate taxi, one of the taxi mafia tried banging our car and ripped off the poor cab drivers side mirror, until my taxi driver pulled over and beat the living shit out of him.

Plus required to invest heavily in the airport during the 25 year period too. I was always doubtful that they would get the 400 but if they do I would have to say the Chinese have won this and they will also get something else..... land.

I don't know what they were waiting for so long. All of their flights have been always full! I wonder if next winter we might see an 8th flight introduced. Can anyone guess what schedule we might see in that case? Maybe a night departure out of BEG?

It's not that BEG is in desperate need for a second runway but I'm SO tired of people saying BEG doesn't need it before like 2050 because it can handle like 40 million passengers with a single runway. What the hell is your argument? Gatwick? Gatwick which would have had more runways if there was more space? There are not that much airports out there which handle more than 10-15 million passengers per year and have a single runway, yet there are dozens of airports which had a second runway even before getting close to 10 million passengers, even in this region and Eastern Europe generally, let alone the Western part. BTS, OTP, BUD, SKG, PRG, WAW, KBP.... Why would BEG not need a second runway? If the concessionaire is willing to build it, let it be.

there is enough space. new runway is actually foreseen with urbanistic plan. it will have the same orientation as the current runway. it would start south west from museum and would stretch to surčin.some houses that were built there are in violation and cannot be legalized. new terminal should be between runway and museum.

I see a bigger need to build a new terminal for than a new runway. BEG simply doesn't currently have the traffic to justify a second runway, not even if we doubled todays amount. Building and maintaining runways are expensive, and there are other priorities that need to be done first.

This is very simple, BEG doesn't NOT need a 2nd runway in the foreseeable future. ANON 1:45PM are you justifying a 50 MEUR investment by "willing to build it.."? What BEG/SMATSA needs to sort out is their movements per hour capacity and specially in LVP.

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